The Mobile Solar Computer Classroom: a complete classroom in the back of an SUV
The Mobile Solar Computer Classroom packed in the back of the SUV and ready to head out to a rural school
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A mobile computer classroom powered by solar panels atop a modified SUV is providing computer training to 100 students a day in the east African country of Uganda. The Maendeleo Foundation, which runs the Mobile Solar Computer Classrooms (MSCC), hopes the project will help to launch a local computer services industry, creating jobs by outsourcing the new computer skills, boost the local economy and alleviate poverty.
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